Unfulfilled Promises: Anton as a Mirror of Afrikaners Identity in The Promise

DOI

10.2991/978-2-38476-323-8_62How to use a DOI?

Keywords

The Promise; Anton; South Africa

Abstract

The Promise is Damon Galgut’s Booker Prize-winning novel from 2021. Renowned for its Woolf-like fluid perspective shifts and elegant, powerful prose, the novel unfolds over four funerals within a white South African family, depicting nearly forty years of social change and racial issues in the country. This paper analyzes the character of Anton, the eldest son, using the novel’s timeline structure to trace his state and development across different periods. Through the microcosm of Anton’s fate, the paper examines the impact of racial and land systems on a generation of South Africans, summarizing the representative fate of that era.

Copyright

© 2024 The Author(s)

Open Access

Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

Download article (PDF)

TY  - CONF
AU  - Wenlin Li
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/12/23
TI  - Unfulfilled Promises: Anton as a Mirror of Afrikaners Identity in The Promise
BT  - Proceedings of the 2024 7th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2024)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 528
EP  - 534
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-323-8_62
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-323-8_62
ID  - Li2024
ER  -